| Author Quoted | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Title Quoted | Duino Elegies / translated into English by James Blair Leishman and Stephen Spender |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/01/17 |
| Imprint | New York : W.W.Norton & Company. 1963 |
| Quotation | Do you read [Rainer Maria] Rilke at all? Does he mean anything to you? I think you would like the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. |
| Quotation Source | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 228 |
| Letter to | Ludovico Silva |
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